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Excerpt from:P.T. Barnum to Moses Kimball, Letter 5, Sepember 4, 1843The manager can only say that it hopeless as such appearance of reality as any fish lying the stalls of our fish markets. . .At all events whether this production is the work of nature or art it is decidedly the most stupenduous curiousity ever submitted to the public for inspection....